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...overwhelming victory of Goldwaterites at last month's Young Republican Convention in Omaha has led to a widespread misconception that the YR National Federation was the scene of ideological struggles. A brief talk with any state delegate of reasonable political acumen, however, will reveal that the basic issue was an intra-party factionalism that had little to do with ideology...
...Harvard Republican Club organized and ran the event, which drew a total of 200 delegates from some 15 campus YR groups...
Riley, ranking college YR in the state and a delegate who did not walk out, blamed the tumultuous finish upon a "procedural quarrel against certain Harvard individuals' handling of the convention...
Peter C. Pierce, president of the Boston University YR's and a Percy backer, rose and challenged the credentials of a crucial bloc of seven conservatives. "They are not dues-paying YR's," Pierce declared. "I know, because they come from B.U. and I am chairman of B.U.'s delegation to this convention. They are members of Young Americans for Freedom [a right wing group...
...record as disassociating ourselves from those who treated the concert as a joke. The fact that we distributed a serious, responsible leaflet criticizing MRA was ignored, and we are not certain that the CRIMSON read it. One of us was instrumental in getting the YD's and YR's to present a disclaimer. Regrettably, mention of this was also omitted...